Darmanitan (Placeholder)

[Plusle]

Work In Progress
Also known as Hihidaruma

Pokedex


[Overview]

<p>Darmanitan has a huge attack stat of 140, which means his sun boosted Flare Blitze's can OHKO nearly everything. With a great other movepool containing Nitro Charge, Hammer Arm, Earthquake, Rock Slide and more. He can become a threatining special sweeper with his Form changing ability Daruma Mode. Sadly Darmanitan is not very fast and is very frail. </p>

[SET]
Name: Life Orb
Move 1: Flare Blitz
Move 2: Earthquake
Move 3: Rock Slide
Move 4: Brick Break / U-Turn / Nitro Charge
Nature: Jolly
Item: Life Orb
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe

[Set Comments]


[SET]
Name: Choice
Move 1: Flare Blitz
Move 2: Rock Slide
Move 3: Earthquake
Move 4: Brick Break / U-Turn
Nature: Adamant / Jolly
Item: Choice Scarf / Choice Band
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Atk / 4 Spe

[Set Comments]

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[can-oars]

encourage(sheer force) ignores the nitro charge boost so i don't think it's worth slashing

 

[Darkamber8828]

Brick Break, not Superpower?

Also, why 252 HP on the choiced set? Don't you want to be fast?

 

[Sixonesix]

I'm gonna double check if Brick Break gets boosted by Sheer Force, but if it does, then it would be superior to Superpower, as Brick Break would do 4.5% more damage to Chople holders over two turns. Assuming the target does not have Chople Berry, Superpower does 2.6% more damage than Brick Break, but at the cost of lowering stats.

As for the rest of the analysis: strike Nitro Charge, add Protect as a primary option on the Life Orb set, and put the 252 HP EVs on the choice set into speed.

 

[marilli]

I'm being really really really nitpicky here but I think you should say BASE 140 attack stat because I know for a fact even Butterfree has a 140 attack STAT.

Clearly everyone knows what you're talking about but just saying

 

[Alaka]

Too long, someone else gets this.